Abstract:

In order to explore the human adaptation process under climate change, based on the "perception-adaptation" framework, and the Pa-PI related method that was the relationship between herders' perception and drought in time series, the herders’ perception to extreme drought was analyzed in the typical areas of Inner Mongolia. The results showed that herders’ perception intensity about extreme drought occurrence rises with time series, and depends positively on the intensity of drought intensity. The results also showed that herders’ perception to extreme drought was most sensitive to drought in summer, but relatively not sensitive in other three seasons, the whole yeas and inter-seasons. The sensitive seasons were different at the different periods in the same area. Herders have more sensitive perception to drought which occurred in recent years, and time was one key factor influencing herders’ perception. The results also showed that herders’ perception to extreme drought was mostly based on season, quarter and year scales but not month scale.